Being disappointed by classic open source OCR I started an attempt to package neural net based approaches (https://github.com/gtsoukas/scene_text https://github

Being disappointed by classic open source OCR I started an attempt to package neural net based approaches (https://github.com/gtsoukas/scene_text https://github.com/gtsoukas/scene_text, don't use it, it is crap), then I found out that Googles' ML Kit (https://developers.google.com/ml-kit/vision/text-recognition https://developers.google.com/ml-kit/vision/text-recognition) gives quite good results, as long as it is for latin based character sets.